Religion

Australian Police Charge Catholic Cardinal George Pell With Sexual Assault

4:31pm June 29, 2017

by Sylvia Poggioli

Australian police charged Cardinal George Pell with multiple "historical" sex crimes. Pell is a top adviser to Pope Francis and in charge of Vatican finances. Pell claims he is innocent and is taking a leave of absence to defend himself.

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Muslims Mark End Of Ramadan In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Feeling Targeted By The Travel Ban

3:52pm June 29, 2017

President Trump's travel ban will get its day in Supreme Court in the fall.

A plethora of religious iconography fill the National Museum of American History's new exhibit, Religion in Early America. From left to right, an 18th century Torah scroll, a 17th century Catholic cross and a children's Noah's Ark playset from 1828 sit on

To Understand How Religion Shapes America, Look To Its Early Days

1:57pm June 29, 2017

by Tom Gjelten

From Thomas Jefferson's cut-up Bible to the country's first printed hymnal, the Smithsonian's Religion in Early America exhibit wants to engage Americans with the role of religion in its first days.

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Cardinal George Pell: Sexual Abuse Charges Against Me Are False

8:09am June 29, 2017

Cardinal Pell, a key adviser to Pope Francis, has been ordered to appear in a Melbourne court next month. Steve Inskeep talks to John Allen, editor of Crux, which focuses on the Catholic Church.

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News Brief: Cardinal Denies Sexual Assault Charges, Travel Ban Details

7:44am June 29, 2017

Cardinal George Pell has been ordered to appear in an Australian court next month to face sexual assault charges. The Trump administration on Thursday will outline how the travel ban will work.

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Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell of Australia has been charged by police in the state of Victoria with sexual assault.

Australian Police Bring Sexual Assault Charges Against Catholic Cardinal

11:43pm June 28, 2017

by Barbara Campbell

Cardinal George Pell, a key adviser to Pope Francis, has been ordered to appear in a Melbourne court next month. The Archdiocese of Sydney says he will return from Rome to fight the charges.

A six-foot-tall privately funded Ten Commandments monument on the Arkansas Capitol grounds in Little Rock today.

Ten Commandments Installed At Arkansas State Capitol; ACLU Plans Lawsuit

7:30pm June 27, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

The monument's key backer, state Sen. Jason Rapert, says it honors the "historical moral foundation of law." But the ACLU says it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Children play on the playground at the Trinity Lutheran Child Learning Center in Columbia, Mo.

Supreme Court Rules Religious School Can Use Taxpayer Funds For Playground

6:57pm June 26, 2017

by Nina Totenberg

In a closely watched case about church and state, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a religious school was entitled to state funding for playground resurfacing under a state program for nonprofits.

Supreme Court Sides With Religious School In Church-State Case

5:55pm June 26, 2017

by Tom Gjelten

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a Missouri church that had sought a state grant to resurface the playground at its preschool. The lower court had ruled that the funding violated the Constitutional separation of church and state. In Monday's decision, the court said that states can't deny public benefits to religious institutions that are otherwise qualified.

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Five-year-old Fatima shows off her Sallah gift in a camp for those internally displaced by the ongoing violence in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in northeast Nigeria.

In Northeast Nigeria, Displaced Families Celebrate Ramadan's End In Style

10:42am June 26, 2017

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

Security remains an issue in the northeast as Boko Haram's sporadic but targeted attacks continue. But even by those displaced by the fighting managed to celebrate Eid Al-Fitr, or "Sallah" in Nigeria.